Michael Hancock – Game Studies 101

The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture

So, I co-wrote an essay entitled “Your Humanity is In Another Castle” with @femfreq for the book “The State of […]

Geertz’s Deep Play is an essay (I think) everyone should read. So much so I wrote about it: http://t.co/s1VP6L3rP5 […]

“Rank-and-file game developers bring videogames from concept to product, and yet their work is almost invisible, hidden behind the famous […]

“The machinery of gaming has run amok. Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it […]

“So the question is: How do good game designers manage to get new players to learn long, complex, and difficult […]

“The ludology v narratology argument argument can never be resolved because one group of people is defining both sides of […]

“So much of videogame studies has been marked by a single question: ‘What is a game?’ “For a while now, […]

“We are about four or five years into the formation of a new discipline, digital game studies. Though by one […]

“A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the […]

“In Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining […]